A study or paper · 1976 · Research
The finding that the satisfaction is not in the show
Across several decades of television studies the same pair of results kept surfacing: these bonds are extremely common among regular viewers, and the strength of the bond predicts enjoyment better than the quality of the programme does.
It says the satisfaction is not in the writing, it is in the accumulation. A show that is not very good, watched consistently, produces a stronger feeling than a good show watched occasionally. This is why commitment to a mediocre series is not a failure of taste, and it is the most consistently replicated and least widely known finding in the entire field.
Consideration. The part where somebody stops and thinks. The research, the diagnosis, the ethics, the lawsuits, the regulators. Roughly fifty years of arguing with itself about whether this is a relationship.
Where it sits
1950 1950-1999 · 1976 1999
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